The Ultimate Guide To 11 BIG Facebook Changes--And What They Mean (PHOTOS)

It's been a big week for Facebook.

The site rolled out a new "Like" button, shuttered Facebook Lite, introduced "Community Pages," and announced a host of other significant changes at the F8 Facebook conference.

What do these Facebook changes entail--and what do they mean for you? We've put together the ultimate guide to Facebook's most recent revamps, and how they'll affect users.

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"Facebook Connect" Nixed

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Facebook Connect used to be the way Facebook linked its users to the World Wide Web and allowed them to share information. Now, the site has decided to replace Facebook Connect with a new "Facebook Platform" that features a series of novel social plugins, which aim to "dramatically expand [Facebook's] presence across the Web." Mashable writes Facebook's "Open Graph" is "essentially a replacement for Facebook Connect that makes it easier to share information. However, unlike Facebook Connect, Open Graph participants will be able to store user data for more than 24 hours."

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Facebook Connect used to be the way Facebook linked its users to the World Wide Web and allowed them to share information. Now, the site has decided to replace Facebook Connect with a new "Facebook Platform" that features a series of novel social plugins, which aim to "dramatically expand [Facebook's] presence across the Web." Mashable writes Facebook's "Open Graph" is "essentially a replacement for Facebook Connect that makes it easier to share information. However, unlike Facebook Connect, Open Graph participants will be able to store user data for more than 24 hours."

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[creoleguy32]

10:41 AM on 05/20/2010

I can not read this page without a bug popping up and re-setting my browser. Must be Suckerman of FB

[sdzulu]

11:06 AM on 05/17/2010

This is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Anyone who updates a computer over the web has MS in your computer. If you do not think that your cpu and DOS software has functions that can tell someone every key stroke you have made is living in La La land. It may be illegal to use it and it may not be known, but it will take just one gwb to get it. Remember the library information gathering phase.

People that have googled themselves know something of which I speak.

[Mark Ellsworth]

03:40 PM on 05/16/2010

Isn't the government still keeping track of the books we check out at the library? What privacy are supposed to be referring to?

[ljmck]

01:32 PM on 05/16/2010

Have you read HuffingtonPost's privacy policy? What are the badges all about--other than further public and commercial identification of you and your habits? Virtually anything you write or exhibit here or elsewhere, including your avatar, says something about you--something that may be true today and not true tomorrow but that is permanent in any case.

What about other websites where you've registered? Every bit of information that is requested or that you provide voluntarily or by use is used and is permanent. Think of it as a nebulous shadow self that now accompanies you everywhere--permanently. Thanks to the wonderful and personally useful tools of the Internet, you have a shadow self that is used in ways where your risk perhaps can not be pre-determined.

And you thought the government's ability to go to the library and see which books you checked out were a threat to your privacy!

You might be able to determine what information your government has about you, but you will probably never know what commerce knows about you or how they use it or plan to use it. Your shadow self is so much more useful than your real self...

Grow some paranoia!

[Cheryl L Greenway]

06:27 PM on 04/29/2010

the link noted that leads to all allfacebook.org has some outdated info. some of the settings mentioned are no longer available (numbers 6 and 10 listed) or now have to be modified in a slightly different way.

[mehmetaydalka]

09:00 PM on 04/28/2010

http://www.facebook.com/aydalga?ref=profile#!/aydalga?ref=profile

[GeneralRemy]

08:07 PM on 05/16/2010

I've got a list of posts here, and mehmetaydalka just posts something with no description. Yes, I know I could just click, and see what he is trying to show me, but there are others here with links, AND descriptions. I really don't care what the government does with my facebook account. Seriously, does anyone know how FB would use your own info against you ? Bush isn't in office anymore. I'm not scared. Should I be ?

[kejia]

11:50 PM on 04/26/2010

yuck

[SanityNow]

02:41 PM on 04/25/2010

Facebook: an Intelligence wet dream . . .
- What do you read?
- Where in the world have you been?
- What do you believe?
- Show us your picture(s)
- Name the people in the pictures

And we gladly feed the beast. With Pride.
Whoever thought intelligence gathering could be so easy?
But then, whoever thought we would actually buy water?

[Taliese]

01:11 PM on 05/16/2010

You are SO fanned!

[SouthpawSass]

08:38 AM on 05/17/2010

LOL... not me, never thought water would be something bottled and sold.

[eddiestardust]

02:39 PM on 04/25/2010

I know this much abou " Mr. Whiz Kid, Mr. Z"...

He knows very little of how companies actually work as in it's your customer who is your bread and butter.

Your customer can always go elsewhere and if you are not careful your customer will go elsewhere.

[mrjames1]

12:01 PM on 04/25/2010

Haha . facebook keeps ALL OF YOUR MESSAGES , even after you 'delete' them
Haha. *uckerburg doesn't even use his OWN site. He has no account, only a fan page.
Haha. *ucker gave out your private friends list, but all his contacts are secret.
Haha. The Russian investment allowed Russians access to the DB, including credit card and other important info
Haha. Take any personal quizzes or tests on fb? Your answers are saved forever.
Haha. they track your IP log, time spent, and over 100 basic metrics

Have you figured out that this is the hugest dis/ast/er waiting to happen?

[Justin T Shockley]

01:50 PM on 04/24/2010

Facebook has A.D.D.

[Thecoffeedude]

10:36 AM on 04/24/2010

Facebook the mother of all social tools.. means nothing to me.. Facebook is like going fishing in the dead sea.. Its a dead social magma... The people there are like a suspension of particles in a liquid, such as milk of magnesia.

I get these tiny little notifications like..I like your profile..big deal. Do I know you? everyone now will get an even bigger chance to turn into little Plato's ..more pupils of Socrates ..here's what I found On Socrates he was Greek philosopher whose indefatigable search for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. Although Socrates wrote nothing, his method of question and answer is captured in the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil. Does this sound like FACEBOOK proteges

[Ravyn]

03:22 AM on 04/24/2010

I wonder how long it will be before we hear that everything we post on Facebook is going to wind up in the Library of Congress the same as with Twitter.

I don't have a problem with linking to outside sites you visit as long as FB users have the option of customizing their set-up and de-linking and linking only to what they want. Also that it isn't some big hassle with endless pop-up menus asking you all the time if you want to link something to your Facebook page. Already I'm noticing major slow downs using some FB applications to the point of my stopping using some of them.

[taylorfyhrie]

06:22 PM on 04/23/2010

I do online marketing and see both sides to this. Having targeted ads within facebook are helpful to the buyer and seller. The facebook user gets info in their side bar that pertains to them and the seller gets more sales. In a down economy, facebook marketing is a big positive boost in revenue.

I agree that there should be more information widely available from facebook on what is shared and how to opt out.

[laaambchop]

02:17 PM on 04/23/2010

http://mashable.com/2010/04/23/hacker-facebook/

32 minutes ago Jolie O'Dell View Comments
Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook Accounts

[zingdaddy]

04:44 AM on 04/24/2010

That's a whole lot of Farmville.

[laaambchop]

08:17 AM on 04/24/2010

Does this mean I can't trust the pie tasting invites now?